Amanda Palmer - The Box Song lyrics

Box on a desk Next to a castle of gla** That they bought from the airport The price on the back Shelves overflow With photographs and bones A museum of someone That will never be known Pennies for thoughts That cost a mountain of debt Rusting in bottles They'll never come to collect They'll never come to collect And you were sure that you could keep it all Off in a tower where there'd always be space And you were sure that if you read it all You would eventually come across your own name Daffodils hanging off a rearview of lies You keep your foot on the pedal And you can't see outside Boxes of novels Fill all the seats and the trunk There's barely room for a driver In this treasure chest of junk And the tower is crumbling And you are thinking of running From all these years of commitment To keep this dead garden growing To keep this dead garden growing And you were sure that you could learn it all And if you did than you would always be safe And you were sure that you could use it all To build a fortress they could never take It's got to be around here somewhere Maybe you're really going mad Maybe it's buried in the old school Maybe you never really- And now you're starting look A little like someone in a book You've tucked yourself inside Your body pressed and dried Fairies and princes And the story doesn't change He keeps slaying the dragon She's still chained to the cage And it's time to retire But you can't give up the title As the head of collections For these dead letter files As the head of collections For these dead letter files And you were sure that you could keep it all locked And all the nice dark things would never get lit And you were sure that you could keep them out And you were sure that you could keep yourself hid It's got to be around here somewhere Maybe it's under mom and dad Maybe you wrote it in your diary Maybe you never really- It's got to be around here somewhere Maybe you have it to your son Maybe it's time you just admit that Maybe you never really had A past worth pa**ing on